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The Quebec Ministry of Education is sending inspectors to 17 schools where violations of the state's secularism law have been reported

2024/11/14
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Trudie Mason is joined by Neil Drabkin, is a lawyer who served as federal prosecutor and former chief of staff in the Harper government, and Paul Gott, Lead singer and guitarist for Montreal Punk Rock band the Ripcordz and a journalism professor at Concordia.

  • The Quebec Ministry of Education is sending inspectors to 17 schools where violations of the state's secularism law have been reported
  • Conservative MPs are frustrated with their leader Pierre Poilievre's directive to stop supporting federal housing funds in their constituencies
  • Nathaly Rivard is appalled by the 15-day suspension given to Sûreté du Québec officer Sébastien Plouffe, who discarded a fragment of her 14-year-old son's skull in a ravine after a fatal crash in 2021